Nursery World - Coronavirus: Council provides £300,000 to keep settings open for Easter break

Nottinghamshire County Council is funding PVI early years settings with an extra £300,000 during the Easter holidays, to help them stay open for critical workers and vulnerable children.

The money is available for nurseries and childminders, and will be an extension of currently-funded two-, three- and four-year-old places.

Payments will be based on occupancy, for which a headcount exercise will be carried out. A council spokesman confirmed that the whole two weeks of the Easter break would be covered, even if nurseries currently stretch the 38-week offer over a longer period and would be open anyway.

Cllr Philip Owen, Chair of the Children and Young People’s Committee said, “Children should be kept at home wherever it is possible and safe to do so. Critical workers who are unable to do this can and should be able to access childcare and we don’t want a lack of funding to get in the way.

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